They had been celebrating Miss Ward’s mother’s birthday and at about 10.30pm Miss Ward, the defendant and her aunt Susan Stewart shared a taxi home, dropping her aunt off first.

When the defendant and his girlfriend got back to her house, the mood of the night changed. The defendant brought up a conversation that his girlfriend had had with another man on Facebook earlier in the month.

The defendant then took Miss Ward’s phone off her in a bid to look through her Facebook messages.

After Culley had bitten his victim, he ‘rubbed his face in hers, smearing the blood across her face and then he stuck his tongue into her mouth

The court heard how when he found that the messages were no longer there he became angry and started to shout at Miss Ward accusing her of having something to hide.